A New History of Life Quotes

“While funerals are among the saddest events that we humans can participate in, at least they are definitive moments marking change: from living to dead. But perhaps even sadder is the life near its end, such as a human with a fatal malady given a highly definitive death sentence.”
― Peter D. Ward, A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

“Nobel laureate Christian de Duve stated that once the ingredients were in place with the right amount of energy present in the early Earth stove, life would have emerged from nonlife very quickly. Perhaps in minutes.”
― Peter D. Ward, A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

“to come as lodestones for the history we have”
― Peter Ward, A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth